Page 150 of Dare To Live

She drags on her jeans. I arch a brow at her lack of underwear.

“All my clothes are in my room.”

“Good point. You should just bring them down here.”

She stills. “You wouldn’t mind?”

“You own me now, remember? Wearing my clothes, branding my skin. No take backs, Ari.”

I wink and head into the bathroom to take a shower.

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“Why don’t you go and sit down, and I’ll get breakfast?” Arabella waves at Miles and Ivan, who are already seated at our table.

“You don’t need to do that.”

“Kellan used to get breakfast, so you didn’t have to mess around with money.”

“And everything is free this week. They’re wooing us, in the hopes we’ll give them our blessing to reopen the school.”

She rolls her eyes at me. “Just go and sit down, Eli.”

“I don’t know. Give a girl just the tiniest hint that she might have a claim on you and what happens? She turns into a domineering Hellcat.”

She ignores my comment. “What do you want to eat?”

“Anything.”

She folds her arms and frowns at me. “Is that what Kellan used to do? Just pick up whatever he wanted, and you went along with it.”

“Pretty much. I’ll eat anything, as long as it comes with coffee.” I tweak a lock of her hair and drop a kiss to the tip of her nose. “I deserve a prize for not making that sound dirtier.” My next kiss is on the corner of her mouth. “Miles said food is your love language.” One side of my mouth curls up. “Do you love me, Hellcat?” I’m only half-teasing.

“I love the things your tongue can do to me. I need to make sure you keep your stamina levels up, so you can do it again.”

I’m still laughing when I take my seat beside Ivan. Miles points his spoon at me from across the table. “Looks like someone already had her breakfast.”

My hand lifts to touch my throat. “She was marking her territory.” I tell them both about the run-in with Brad and Lacy.

“That’s … Wow, that’s fucked up,” Miles says when I fall silent. “They seriously wanted a threesome with you?”

“I’m not sure whether that was their intention or Lacy wanted to fuck me while Brad watched. Ari was too busy trying to strangle Lacy for me to get the full details.”

“Oh my god, I did not try to strangle her!” Arabella slides the tray of food in front of me and takes the empty seat on my right.

“Baby, I had to drag you off her.” I wink at Miles. “She told Lacy I belong to her.” My voice is only a little smug.

The glare she nails me with would be more effective if her cheeks weren’t so red. I smile at her.

“What? That’s what you said. You can’t deny it. There were witnesses.”

“I was angry.”

I pick up my coffee and smirk over the rim. “You were jealous.”

Miles’ eyes dart from me to her, a smile spreading across his face.

“What are you grinning about?” she snaps, which only makes him smile harder.

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